What is everyone using for trail cameras this year? I want something that takes pictures but i don't quality just pictures with a cheap price tag
I have a moultrie i45 and a bushnell trophy cam, both are awesome. I keep them both in the woods 24/7/365 with no issues at all.
You can get the Primos 35 on sale right now for about $75-80 bucks. Pretty solid cam for that price. Blessings......Pastorjim
Check out yeticam.com.... essentially you can build your own camera and they use alot of sony digital cameras which can be bought on ebay fairly cheap. These have been taking the best pictures ive personally seen. Certain models take better pics than other so read reviews on cameras.
I have built several homebrew cameras. Essentially what you are doing is attaching a regular digital camera to a control board with a motion sensor and mounting it all in a water-proof case, such as a Pelican 1040. The completed units take the best pics you have ever seen. There are many cameras that can be used but most of them are older Sonys. Depending on what you pay for the camera, you can usually build a cam for around $125.00. The boards run anywhere from $39-$59 with the cases being $15-$20. The Sony S600 is considered to have the best picture quality. Here are some sample pics one of my units plus pics of the build in progress. These pics were all from a Sony S600. Some night pics Build in progress The components Blessings......Pastorjim
Ok you know i am going to say this. http://www.amazon.com/Wildgame-Inno...e=UTF8&s=sporting-goods&qid=1305402246&sr=8-1
I have heard of some really bad affects on deer due to the regular flash. I have been iffy about using a regular flash. I have been looking at different IR cameras. Dp the flashes on these cameras scare off deer? I have an older Sony camera that I will have to dig out and see if I could use it. Also, what ar ethe delay settings and can they do multiple picture burst? I am really interested in doing this.
There are mainly three board makers. www.yeticam.com, www.snapshotsniper, and www.bfoutdoors.com. Generally, I don't think white-flash bothers the deer anymore than IR. I've had deer stand and stare at both. There may be individule deer that are more skittish than others but generally I don't think it makes alot of difference. There is a way to make the homebrews into IR but it's beyond my skill level and personally, I prefer white-flash. Blessings.......Pastorjim
At any given time, we run between 10-20 cameras spread over two states, and exclusively use two different models, both are bargain basement Wildviews. I've recently started upgrading to the Wildview 3 MP IR cameras, so I'll post their pics first. We have 6 of these, and no failures yet. They eat 4 C batteries per serving, and they generally last around a month, unless temperatures get down into the teens or single digits. They take standard SD cards. They do video, but I've never bothered to try it. We buy the two-packs from Cabela's everytime they go on sale for $119.99. It works out to $60.00 per camera, which is reasonable. The two-pack comes with 2 free 2GB SD cards, so that helps. Cabelas' inventory varies on these, and they seem to only have them available in stores (not online). We just watch the sale ads. We get a reasonable amount of pictures of "nothing" - presumably the wind or sun glare triggering the camera. I compound it by setting the trigger to bursts of six pictures. Maybe 10 percent are false-triggers. I just click through them and delete them. I'd rather have a false trigger than a non-trigger. I use Rayovac C Batteries - 12 packs are $11.00 at Walmart. Running 10 cameras at any time will cost us about $40/month in batteries (4 batteries x 10 cams). It sucks, but I like to canvass hell's half-acre to find shooter bucks. The other 8 cameras are the first-generation Wildviews (1.3 MP, I believe) - and they don't even sell them anymore. They do sell something that's very similar in a 2.0 MP for around $55.00 per camera. Battery usage is similar to the 3.0 MP IR's listed above - maybe a month or so. 4 C batteries & standard SD cards. We did have a flash burn out on one last year, but most of these cameras are probably getting close to the 10,000 photo mark. We've really put some mileage on these. Occasionally, a camera will go haywire and snap a large series of false triggers, but it's rare. A new load of batteries reboots the system, and they're always good to go. Well worth the price. When you take that many pictures, you're bound to have a couple duds.
